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The book offers a multidimensional exploration at the intersection of space, identity, and social movements through a comparative analysis of antagonistic social actors co-existing in Verona, a mid-sized Italian city renowned as the fortress of the far-right.

This book is a powerful contribution to ways of thinking about the formation of organisational models in early medieval Western Europe: it breaks new ground in the field by interrogating the legal systems from a continuity-angle.

This book presents 21 previously published essays spanning 1991-2019 on the three volumes of Marx's Capital - mostly in the form of a summary (a Volume or its Parts or Chapters) followed by an appreciation and (when required) a reconstruction.

In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms, Anna-Leena Toivanen combines mobilities research, postcolonial literary studies, and theories of cosmopolitanism to explore the representations and often complex intertwinements of different mobility practices and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts.

In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert applies contemporary theories of community to works of fiction about the slave trade in order to both shed new light on slave trade studies and rethink the very notion of community.

International Maritime Security Law, by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo, defines an emerging interdisciplinary field of law and policy comprised of norms, legal regimes, and rules to address today's hybrid threats to the global order of the oceans.

Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.

This book explains why supranationalism and multiculturalism are in fact irreconcilable with representative government and the rule of law. It challenges one of the most central beliefs in contemporary legal and political philosophy, which is that borders are bound to disappear.

Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.The famous ryōsai kenbo or 'good wife, wise mother' role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct - its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyama's discovery has transformed how we see modern women's history in Japan and East Asia as a whole.

Patriarchy in East Asia provides a coherent comparative analysis of gender in five East Asian societies. This is the first work of its kind done by a sociologist who is also fluent in all of the local languages.

Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights - to understanding and reflecting upon the concept of Human Rights; to participating in, and sometimes helping to create, organisations and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of Human Rights; to helping those who have been denied their Human Rights and to encouraging and supporting research into and scholarship on Human Rights. All this has been achieved by a man who has had no formal training in the field, but who has become a recognised expert through his extensive reading, through working with leading exponents, and by drawing upon his lively intellect, his wealth of culture and his knowledge of history, philosophy and religions. This volume, published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, offers insight into the challenging relationship between religion and human rights.

In Theologians and Contract Law, Wim Decock offers an account of the moral roots of modern contract law. He explains why theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries built a systematic contract law around the principles of freedom and fairness.

This book provides a precise concept of international human rights law, its development and the tangible meaning of civil and political rights, economic and social rights. It has highlighted women's rights, globalization, human rights education, role of the UN and NGOs to protect human rights.

This is a new and substantially expanded edition of the author's 'Russian Commercial Law' (2001) which has become the standard resource in this area.

This book examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between international law, time and history. Problems relating to time and history are ever-present in the work of international lawyers, whether understood in terms of the role of historic practice in the doctrine of sources, the application of the principle of inter-temporal law in dispute settlement, or in gaining a coherent insight into the role that was played by international law in past events. But very little has been written about the various different ways in which international lawyers approach or understand the past, and it is with a view to exploring the dynamics of that engagement that this book has been compiled. In its broadest sense, it is possible to identify at least three different ways in which the relationship between international law and (its) history may be conceived. The first is that of a history of international law written in narrative form, and mapped out in terms of a teleology of origins, development, progress or renewal. The second is that of history in international law and of the role history plays in arguments about law itself (for example in the construction of customary international law). The third way of understanding that relationship is in terms of international law in history: of understanding how international law has been engaged in the creation of a history that in some senses stands outside the history of international law itself. The essays in this collection make clear that each type of engagement with history and international law interweaves various different types of historical narrative, pointing to the typically multi-layered nature of international lawyers engagement with the past and its importance in shaping the present and future of internat

Introduction to Public Law offers a new approach to public law, defined as the law of the public good, by drawing on historical and comparative analysis of England, France, Germany and the United States.

The book is an ideal choice for practitioners and researchers because it combines first hand information on the most recent developments on Cyprus with legal evaluations from an international official trained in international and European law.

This is the first book to focus on media and conflict - primarily international conflict - from multidisciplinary, cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. Twenty-two contributors from around the globe present original and thought provoking research on media and conflict in the United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Media and Conflict includes works both on the traditional print and electronic media and on new media including the Internet. It explores the role media play in different phases of conflict determined by goal and structure including conflict management, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Numerous Nazis and Nazi sympathizers fled to Latin America at the end of World War II. This volume traces life trajectories and professional activities of some of these persons and reconstructs their contacts with local elites in their new and old homes in the context of the Cold War.

Muslims, Christians, and Jews throughout the Mediterranean but especially in medieval Iberia engaged in polemic and disputation. The Arabic text, The Book of Disputation, edited and studied here is doubly important: it is written by a Mudejar (subject Muslim living under Christian rule in Iberia) and it thoroughly engages with natural philosophy, demonstrating the continued vitality of Muslim intellectual life in late medieval Iberia.

This volume explores more than four centuries of the Hungarian Jesuits' history, defined by continuous renewal amidst various disruptions that compelled them to restart their activities. It sheds light on how the extensive efforts of the Jesuits contributed significantly to the rich history of this multi-ethnic and multi-confessional region.

"This book gathers and builds on research into distinct national and regional traditions in regulating innovation. It is an early attempt at a comprehensive legal history of the uneven trans-Atlantic harmonization of IP law. Authors explore harmonization as a legal mandate and a progressive ideal, and imagines areas in which coherent regulatory webs could build a more vibrant trans-Atlantic knowledge economy"--

"This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Hungary and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Hungarian language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life"--

This volume presents new research and essential context on the first generations of learned poetry in Ibero-Romance languages. Sixteen scholars from Europe, Great Britain, Latin America, and the U.S. unite for an expansive view of mester de clerecía poetry.

This study conducts an analysis of the Eucharist within the Synoptic Gospels including their co-texts via a Mode Register Analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics to trace the construction process of each designated text.

Arbitrators are called to settle disputes balancing the opposing interests of the parties and the different legal systems relevant to the resolution of the dispute. This book collects the essays offered by colleagues and friends of Piero Bernardini, a leading international arbitrator who proved to be a champion in achieving balance in the administration of justice through arbitration.

This groundbreaking book, one of four on the 'elements', presents interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of water in the Middle Ages, ranging geographically across Europe and beyond and chronologically from the fourth century CE to the sixteenth.

Postcollectivity designates the transition phase between the disintegration of traditionally understood collectives (people who act together and produce goods or resources) and a move towards emerging contemporary communication models, forms of knowledge production and sharing practices needed to regain agency in crises.